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Did We Really Need that Character?

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

April 25, 2019 by Ale Leave a Comment

I picked this up on a whim at a used book shop. The cover was nice and the first page was really intriguing. I got into it right away, and the story starts out with an incredibly compelling narrator, Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee escaping to England for asylum after a terrible event occurs in her village. As the story unfolds, however, the plot goes crazy-pants and we’re introduced to a second narrator, Sarah, a British magazine editor who met Little Bee through terrible circumstances […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: asylum, England, Little Bee, Nigerian war, refugees

Ale's CBR11 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: asylum, England, Little Bee, Nigerian war, refugees ·
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Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall. And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you’re going to fall…

February 23, 2017 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

OK so this was another weird one.  Kids around England have their heads chopped off and stuffed into watermelons.  The Muffin Man turns out to be the killer, and he’s got some kind of social commentary about fat, sugar, and salt?  The question mark denotes my confusion.  There are puzzles to solve, but I (and Alice) don’t know what’s real, and what’s imagined.  At some points Alice wakes up crippled in the asylum, but neither of us know if that’s her reality, or if the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Alice, asylum, Cameron Jace

kfishgirl's CBR9 Review No:11 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Alice, asylum, Cameron Jace ·
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